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East TN co-op provides organic food Sarah Jung Staff Writer A blue and yellow sign with a rooster and three stars illuminates the corner of Baxter Avenue and North Central Street in North Knoxville. The sign sits above a new and fresh barn-like building. On the outside it might not look special or unusual, but inside it’s unlike anything else in Knoxville.

The clean glass doors of Three Rivers Market (TRM) slide open. A mix of easy listening music plays through the speakers.

Sunlight floods the facility through windowpanes that line the ceiling. Aisles and bins full of colorful, local, organic and natural foods invite each shopper to browse the shelves and pick out a product that builds the local economy.

Three Rivers Market is Tennessee’s only food cooperative and is owned by more than 3,600 community members. It is democratically controlled by the members and a volunteer board of directors elected by TRM members.

“We’re a community-owned store instead of corporately or privately owned, which means there is transparency and a big emphasis on member participation,” Katie Ries, outreach and marketing director, said. “We’ve come together and created a

place where our common economic, social and cultural needs are met when it comes to food. What’s so cool about our store is that the community ownership ensures that profits stay in our community.”

Just $25 a share purchase of TRM and makes a customer a current member-owner. After a year, they will still own that share but the membership won’t be current. It’s easy to renew a membership at the market.

“Purchasing a share and becoming an owner gives people a stake in an honest, open and fair, accountable and communitymined business,” Ries said.

It’s not required to be a member to shop at Three Rivers Market, but there are incentives to becoming a member and shareholder.

“To be a fair share owner is the goal,” Ries said. “That means you own eight shares, the equivalent to $200 and eight years of membership. Fair share owners are able to receive a patronage fund and, if interested, can make a member loan to TRM.” Members and shoppers enjoy an array of local, organic and natural products. Three Rivers Market works with 35 to 40 East Tennessee farmers and is always seeking to work with more.

See THREE RIVERS on Page 3

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Patrons check out after browsing a mix of local organic food offered at Three Rivers Market. TRM offers Knoxville’s only food cooperative, run by and serving its members to bring a community-driven approach to shopping in the Knoxville area.

‘TED talks’ come to UT Caroline Snapp Staff Writer This past Friday, TEDxUTK hosted “A Whirlwind of Opportunity” in an effort to encourage students to expand their horizons with intellectually-stimulating speakers. “‘TED talks’ is a nationwide lecture circuit, and TEDx is a branch of ‘TED talks’ that are independently produced events at colleges around the country,” said Matt Burkhart, a student from Pellisippi State who volunteered to assist with filming the seminar and lighting.

The whole idea behind TEDx is to promote innovation across college campuses.

According to the its website, TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission: “ideas worth spreading.” The website said the program was designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue

through TED-like experiences at a local level.

“The speakers will be experts in a certain field and they’ll come in and talk about some certain advancement or idea and the purpose of it is to expand our horizons as humans,” Burkhart said.

“We had one guy talk about nuclear power and one guy talk about earth housing, really just things to help out the environment and advancing technology, things like that.”

Christine Ware, senior in psychology, was in charge of coordinating volunteers and finding sponsors for the event.

“Basically Lindsay Hummel ,the coordinator, thought of the theme ‘A Whirlwind of Opportunity,’ which actually is the title of the big art sculpture by the library on Pedestrian Walkway,” Ware said. “It’s all really big ideas that might happen in the future, and we wanted to create a culture here for that.”

See TED X UTK on Page 3

Lawyers want cruise ship captain drug tested The Associated Press ROME — Lawyers for survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship on Saturday pressed for new drug tests on the ship’s captain after traces of cocaine were reportedly found on the outside of a hair sample.

But the consultant who did the analyses for prosecutors stood by results, which found no presence of the drug in urine samples or within the hair of Captain Francesco Schettino.

Italian consumer protection group Codacons is representing some survivors of the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which rammed a reef near a Tuscan island the night of Jan. 13. Under Italian law, those attaching civil suits to a criminal case must be informed of, and allowed to monitor, evidence and other developments in the probe.

Codacons said Saturday that some traces of cocaine were found on a hair sample and in an envelope containing the sample, but noted that a urine sample taken from Schettino and an analysis of the hair itself found no presence of the drug. It called that finding “very strange” and said it had asked prosecutors on Friday to order new testing

to see if the samples might have been contaminated.

The Italian news agency ANSA quoted the forensic medical expert who carried out the toxicology test as dismissing Codacons’ concerns about the external trace of cocaine.

The expert, Marcello Chiarotti, was quoted as saying the modest trace of cocaine “was a marginal problem that absolutely doesn’t invalidate the results of the analysis” that found none of the drug inside the hair itself or in the urine. Traces of cocaine in the urine or inside the hair itself would have pointed to consumption.

The prosecutor’s office in Grosseto, Tuscany, was closed Saturday, as was the law office of the attorney defending Schettino, who is under house arrest in his home near Naples while he is investigated for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. The lawyer could not be reached by cell phone.

But ANSA quoted the lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, as saying the test results yielded nothing new. “We have always been sure that Schettino didn't take drugs,” the Grossetobased lawyer was quoted as saying.

Schettino has denied abandoning ship and insisted the

reef was not marked on navigational charts.

Thirty-two people are believed to have perished, including 15 whose bodies have not been found.

Chiarotti was described as expressing confidence in the results. “We will be able to clear this problem up later,” ANSA quoted him as saying.

“Those who work in our field know that there can be problems like this.” He told ANSA that “the results leave no doubt,” adding that he would formally hand in the report to prosecutors next week.

Chiarotti is on the teaching staff of Rome’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The university said he was not in his office Saturday.

ANSA, without citing sources, said that traces of the drug might have resulted if Schettino’s hair had come in contact with someone who had handled cocaine.

A Codacons spokesman, Stefano Zerbi, told The AP that the group was raising the possibility with prosecutors that the samples might have been poorly preserved.

Codacons’ statement said the results indicate a “strange, passive contamination,” in which cocaine somehow got onto Schettino’s hair even though he wasn’t using the drug.

James Hayden • The Daily Beacon

Dr. Matthew Restall, professor of history at Penn State University, speaks to students as part of the “End of the World as We Know It” lecture on Thursday, Feb. 16.

Restall’s presentation, “The Maya, The West, and this Year’s Apocalypse,” served to draw conclusions on the ancient Mayan calendar’s end and the state of the current world.

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Whitney Carter • The Daily Beacon

Conductor James Fellenbaum and the UT Symphony Orchestra receive a standing ovation after their performance Saturday.

1974 — Atlanta Constitution editor is kidnapped Reg Murphy, an editor of The Atlanta Constitution, is kidnapped after being lured from his home near the city. William Williams told the newspaperman that he had 300,000 gallons of heating oil to donate to the poor. The 33-year-old Williams abducted Murphy, who was well known for his anti-Vietnam War stance, at gunpoint.

For the next 49 hours, Williams drove Murphy around the city, stopping to phone in ransom demands to the newspaper.

Williams claimed to represent a right-wing militia group and insisted on receiving $700,000. Finally, managing editor G. James Minter delivered the money to Williams and Murphy was released.

Within hours, Williams and his wife

Betty were caught in their home outside the city with the ransom money. At the subsequent trial, Williams attempted a plea of mental instability and told the jury about being abused as a child. There was also evidence that he had been using amphetamines, but the motive for the crime remains a mystery. Williams was sentenced to 40 years for kidnapping and extortion, and his wife received three years' probation for her concealment of the crime. In 1975, Williams was granted a new trial, found guilty again, and sentenced to 50 years in federal prison.

He served nine years in federal prison before being paroled.

— This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

LettersEditor to the

Searching for purpose in branding To the editor, I don’t know Lindsay Lee, but I thought that her editorial commentary in The Daily Beacon on Thursday was among the best, if not the best, I’ve read since I joined the faculty in 1975. As another member of the UTK faculty put it, “Boy, she’s sure got all that right.” I agree. The slogan BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS is incomplete. It implies that, as members of the faculty, we should spend our non-teaching, non-service time in our offices staring at the ceiling and thinking BIG IDEAS. I once attended a talk by a member of the UTK administrative staff who stated that what distinguished UTK and other research universities from colleges and universities without a major research emphasis was that, whereas the latter mainly communicate knowledge, the former both create and communicate knowledge. Through our research, we at UTK should be expected to create knowledge that is useful in a positive sense to the world at large. BIG IDEAS do not necessarily lead to much, if anything, positive. The Spruce Goose, New Coke, the Edsel, cold fusion, the hiring of Wade Gilley, John Shoemaker, John Peterson and Lane Kiffin, and the Spanish Inquisition, were all BIG IDEAS to someone. BIG IDEAS alone are not enough. Given all of the time, effort and money spent developing a new slogan, it’s too bad that it ended up just two lines long.

I’d have suggested something like BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS, BIG RESULTS. Maybe this whole exercise is the academic/corporate equivalent of a behavior, well known to behavioral ecologists, that is exhibited by wild lions. When the male leader of a pride becomes old or infirm, he is displaced by a younger male who immediately sets about killing all of the cubs sired by his predecessor, thereby removing any genetic vestige of the previous ruler. A few years ago, a former UT president also branded UT with a slogan or, rather, paid a consulting firm to come up with one: “Changing the future today.” Was that slogan flawed, or was it “killed off” by our current administration in an effort to proclaim dominance?

Arthur C. Echternacht Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology echterna@utk.edu

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NEWS

ic Kroger gala apples at $2.29 a pound.

Organic, fair-trade bananas at TRM are 89 cents per pound or 79 cents per pound for continued from Page 1 members. Organic bananas at Kroger are 69 “We have quality standards that all our cents per pound.

While Kroger’s bananas are cheaper, they products have to meet. On the basic level, they have to create and nourish a healthier are not fair-trade, meaning there are no environment, healthier people and a health- standards of ethical labor for the people who picked the bananas. ier community,” Ries said.

Products and produce are delivered The quality standards state the market’s almost every day of “passion is healthy the week from multifood” and that it ple vendors. offers products Stephanie that customers can Gilman, a member trust to be great and shopper of tasting, exceed TRM, said she has expectations and benefited from the found at the best market. value.

“I love TRM TRM’s quality because everything standards are availis always fresh,” able via an easy-toGilman said. “I download PDF file joined a year ago at www.threebecause members riversmarket.coop. get deals on certain “We classify items at certain some things as times during the local when it is month. Also, it’s available within only $25 to start a 100 miles of membership and the Knoxville,” Ries discounts I’ve gotten said.

“Regional add up past that so means that the far. And the location product is made in is great. It’s so Tennessee or with• Photo courtesy of art.utk.edu accessible.” in 275 miles of Ries agreed with Knoxville and bio- Students in the UTK Print Club present a regional means skin-printing demonstration outside of Gilman on the location of TRM. within the southThree Rivers Market in October 2011. TRM “We really ern Appalachian hopes to draw in support from the com- lucked out on our foodshed.”

The market car- munity, including UT’s large campus pop- location,” Ries said.

“We are able to ries local breads ulation. serve the communifrom Tellico Grains ty better now Bakery in Southeast Tennessee and The Bakery Lady in Seymour, Tenn. It also car- because bus lines 20 and 24 make stops ries local milk from Cruze Farms in East right outside our door, Interstate 275 is Knoxville and cheeses from Sweetwater across the street and North Central has a Valley Farm in Philadelphia, Tenn., and bike lane.”

Tennessee Valley Bikes also provides a Locust Grove Farm in East Tennessee along with many more healthful and natural foods. repair station outside the store for any quick Not only are local foods available, but bike tune-up.

“Knoxville is so fortunate to have a co-op also basic items such as grain, nuts, coffee as well-developed as Three Rivers Market,” and flavorful snacks are available in bulk.

According to the quality standards for Ries said. “Because we are cooperative and produce, TRM features seasonal produce have the quality standards we do, we can “to keep costs low and minimize waste” and help make better food choices easier for when local organically or naturally grown more people.”

Three Rivers Market is open from 9 a.m. produce is not available, certified organic produce is available in quantities that pro- to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Updates for members and shoppers on sales and spevide freshness and minimal waste.

The costs of items vary, but are compara- cials can be found on its Facebook page, ble to other grocers’ organic and natural www.facebook.com/threeriversmarket and selection in town. Organic gala apples at its Twitter page, http://twitter.com/3riversTRM are $2.49 a pound compared to organ- market

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TEDxUTK continued from Page1 The event was free and open for anyone to come and was divided into two sessions.

“So basically TEDx is all about these exhibits that happen nationwide, and they're all for free, and speakers are brought to speak on whatever topic the event is about,” Ware said.

Ware also added that the speakers were all found on the TEDx website, which has many resources and information for anyone interested in the TED organization. TEDxUTK also

The Daily Beacon • 3 has a Facebook and Twitter that students can access for more information about upcoming TEDx events and other related information.

“Utilizing social media has been a huge help for this event because we were able to post updates and things like that,” Ware said.

Ware was pleased with the success of the event and was hopeful that there will be more TEDxUTK events in the future.

“As far as future events there’s nothing set in stone yet, but the organizer wants to bring TEDx again in September and there’s a strong likelihood that could happen because we had great attendance, which is fantastic,” Ware siad. “We’re looking at about 75 percent capacity, which is great, so we’re hopeful.”a

Whitney Carter • The Daily Beacon

David Grueser, junior in civil engineering, gives his presentation, “Earthbags,” at the TEDxUTK event Friday. TEDx is a program with local events in the same vein as the internationally renowned organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.”

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LettersEditor to the

Advertising graduate questions brand My dearest alma mater, I graduated from our esteemed university in 2010 with an advertising degree and then trekked my way up to Washington, D.C. to dive head-first into the big world of advocacy advertising. I now spend my days working closely with clients from all over the country who have only one thing in common: They are trying to sell an idea.

So, I understand what it was that the higher-ups at UT were thinking with this “Big Orange, Big Ideas” mess that has popped up in my inbox and all over my various news feeds and invariably pissed a lot of people off. It makes perfect sense for a university trying to break into the top 25 to have a specific branding message. It makes perfect sense to unify color schemes and fonts and talk about which buzz words are the most effective in making the university more attractive. It makes perfect sense to have all of those things consolidated into one document that is available for download by anyone at the university who might be designing promotional material or who might be curious about what the official orange of UT is (as a side note, PMS 151, CMYK 0/50/100/0 and HEX F77F00 are three COMPLETELY different colors).

But that’s where they lose me.

Looking at the execution of this whole thing (from my purely digital vantage point), I’m not quite sure what the administration is trying to accomplish. Is the university rebranding itself, or advertising the new brand book? Every other branding campaign I’ve ever seen uses the branding ideas to form messages that are then sent to the target audience. Their brand books are internal documents used to shape the final message. It’s almost like UT is trying to outsource that final step, but instead, they have made it seem like they are trying to tightly control the information about the school. “Stop talking about the big orange screw and use these buzz words instead!” says the Big Orange Propaganda Machine. The “vibrant,” “dynamic,” “investigative” student body sees this “branding campaign” plastered on the side of the library and feels like UT is blatantly and obviously trying to manipulate them.

And let’s talk about this $85,000 price tag. In both the consulting world and the academic world, that much money is simply a drop in the bucket. I could talk about the fact that, to a recent graduate who is unemployed and unsure about the future (not to mention has also been getting donation e-mails from the alumni office since about five minutes before the graduation ceremony), that is a life changing amount of money, but instead I want to point out something else entirely: UT has a world-class advertising faculty and curriculum. Guess what the capstone class of this curriculum does? It designs a branding campaign from start to finish. Actually, let me rephrase: It designs GOOD branding campaigns from start to finish. When my class got done presenting to the CEO and CMO of McCormick & Co (the Fortune 500 spice company) two years ago, they remarked that our finished product was better than the campaign they’d just paid millions for. The university could have easily had seniors paying to design this campaign for the school. A home-grown branding campaign that the university and the student body could feel proud of. Instead, they paid a consulting firm $75,000 for … what, exactly?

UT students appear to feel as if this campaign is a slap in the face of their independent thinking. As an alumni, it’s a slap in the face to both my degree program and my donated dollars. Which is kind of heartbreaking, if you really think about it.

Laura Brown B.S Advertising University of Tennessee class of 2010 SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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Administration enjoys irrelevant SGA Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins I don’t like the SGA. You must have surmised that from reading my tirades from last year around election time. I guess you read about how I find them to be a useless and powerless organization, a waste of university funding, and a blight on the face of American democracy. You might even remember me saying that we ought to elect a certain quarterback as SGA President instead of participating en masse in the Panhellenic Pride Parade that is the annual duel between two atrociouslynamed and Greek-stocked parties.

Want to hear something you didn’t already know?

The university administration finds the SGA and the elections that stock it just as laughable and futile as I do. I’ve got evidence.

Exhibit A: The administration has made these elections an afterthought.

At the beginning of every election cycle, the SGA Election Commission and Dean of Students office publish an election rules and procedures packet. This was the document that was discussed in a front-page article that ran in The Daily Beacon last week. Among other things, it defines when they can begin campaigning, what they can do in their campaign efforts, and how materials can be distributed. While that may seem fair enough, the fact of the matter is that even a cursory glance through the document’s 43 pages reveals several limitations on free speech.

Turns out these campaigns are not allowed to actually campaign. Sure, they can pitch their customary tents and hand out goodies in exchange for empty promises and speak to individual on-campus organizations, but they cannot stage rallies or canvas for votes. They are barred from posting flyers around campus (a limitation that has been “justified” by the inability to ensure that the flyers will be picked up) and have been ordered to refrain from “chalking” on university sidewalks. These latter two restrictions stand, of course, in stark contrast to the fact that we are all inundated daily with advertisements for commercial entities, concerts, UT-related events and

apartment complexes across campus in both flyer AND chalk form. If the Woodlands or College Republicans can do it, why can’t these supposedly “vital” campaigns?

More disconcerting than that, they are actually prohibited from utilizing all forms of social media until a specific date. They cannot create organized groups or spread the word about their stances on issues until a certain date. That’s right: UT has told these students what they can and cannot say in an unaffiliated public forum and when they can say it.

How are these elections supposed to be representative if campaigns cannot spread their message? It’s no wonder only 9.3 percent voted last year. The campaigns are given so little time to actually get the word out that they might as well just post pictures of themselves on the ballots and tell everyone to vote for the “pretty one” (… if they don’t already).

Exhibit B: When elected SGA officers and members actually get into office, they’re crippled.

The SGA has many meetings throughout the school year where they discuss and vote upon various pieces of legislation that are written by members of the body.

The administration, however, has limited what they can actually do. They’ve been relegated to determining the positioning of park benches instead of weighing in on actual problems facing UT students. Other pieces of legislation either get vetoed by the SGA President because he/she is assured they will never be imposed or will be tossed in the garbage once they get to the desk of Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, a man who is supposedly all about “Big Ideas.”

I’m told administrators don’t often attend SGA meetings.

When the administration actually does want student input, they shun the SGA in preference of specially created focus groups that they might speak to once or twice about a given topic.

How are students supposed to view these elections as anything other than a farce if the Big Orange Screw will not actually allow them to step up to the plate and participate? SGA members should be a part of and have a voice in every task force and committee that makes decisions that affect students.

This probably won’t be the last time I opine on this topic, but know this: the biggest reason SGA and its elections are farcical is because the administration makes them that way.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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On Friday, The Wall Street Journal exposed Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser. Utilizing a code that circumvented Safari’s default setting of blocking cookies that track users’ browsing habits, Google was able to continue its tailor-made advertising practices on many unsuspecting iPhone and computer users.

The code Google used was spotted by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer and confirmed by Ashkan Soltani, a technical adviser to the journal.

This is a shocking revelation, considering the fact that one Google site claimed that Safari users could rely on Safari’s privacy settings to prevent tracking

by Google.

Google began backpedaling faster than Eric Berry dropping into coverage on a Hail Mary pass. The code was promptly disabled after being contacted by the Journal. Tuesday night, the electronic media giant removed the language from the site that falsely claimed that users were being protected by Safari’s privacy settings.

Google released a statement that said, “The Journal mischaracterizes what happened and why.

We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It’s important to note that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information.”

In seems that Google may have overstepped some boundaries of fair business practice, essentially strong-arming Apple users out of their privacy. The gist of what this journalist got out of that statement is that Google preferences trump those of Safari. In a poker game featuring the leaders of cyberspace today, Google had an ace up its collective sleeve.

The ramifications of this revelation could also carry heavy monetary value, as well. Google’s legal settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last year included a clause that the company would not “misrepresent” its privacy practices to consumers, which is precisely what it has done. The agreed-upon fine for the violation of this agreement is $16,000 per violation, per day.

In a PC World article, Justin Brookman, director

of consumer privacy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit organization working to keep the Internet open, innovative and free, said that Google was “incredibly stupid” to slip tracking cookies into Safari since the company is already under scrutiny by the FTC. He said, “I’d be very surprised if there was not some type of FTC action.”

When the reach of Google’s code is accounted for, there should be little surprise anywhere if the FTC levies a hefty fine for the violation. The code was in ads on major sites such as Fandango.com, Match.com, AOL.com, TMZ.com, UrbanDictionary.com and even WSJ.com, the website of the newspaper company that broke the news of the infraction, among others.

The timing could not be much worse for Google.

Internet regulation has already been at the forefront of the nation’s attention recently because of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills.

The effects were felt overseas as well, as European Union privacy officials asked Google to “pause” the roll out of a new privacy policy, which is planned for March 1, until the union can confirm the privacy of EU citizens.

Issues such as these cannot be taken lightly as cyberspace’s role in the economy, politics and as a social institution central to the lives of individuals continues to increase.

Forty years ago, the only worry surrounding our bombardment with advertisement was the content of the ads (cigarette ads banned from TV in 1971) or how long one had to wait before his or her program came back on. The complexity of advertising in the media has no doubt grown as time has progressed.

As companies continuously struggle to get the upper hand in the advertising arena, the search for ways to increase the power of each advertising dollar will not cease. Basing the ads that a user sees on their browsing activity is an extremely effective marketing tool — if the user agrees to release that data.

By requiring a user to communicate in some way with the website before allowing cookies, Safari allowed users a way to give consent for the cookies.

While the genius behind tailoring advertisements to the individual user is undeniable, the power that comes with this development is also unquestionable.

With great power comes great responsibility, and Google has fumbled this responsibility on an international stage.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications. He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

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Fiction: Identical, Part Four

by Olivia Cooper The grocery store was pretty busy that day with the weekend on everyone’s mind. The nice weather had inspired notions of grilling and maybe cocktails outside. Craig stood at the end of the fifteen person deep express lane holding a candy bar and a rose for Lisa at home. A little boy in front of him kept staring at him from the seat of the cart his mother pushed. Whenever she stepped to one side, the boy would lean to the other to get a look at Craig.

“Timmy, it’s not polite to stare,” his mother told him and turned to apologize, but caught one sight of Craig and whipped her head back around. Timmy noticed and began to kick his suspended legs frantically.

“I knew it! You’re Mr. Perfect, aren’t you?” he asked.

“You must be little Timmy,” Craig smiled at him. He reminded him of another kid years ago named Johnny. He was the founder of the Mr. Perfect fan club, but now he just sells used cars down the road from the store. Craig has been informed of a few drug deals going on in that car lot.

“Did you really save the town by asking the animals in the zoo?” Timmy interrupted Craig’s thoughts.

“Well, I asked the rhinos, but they spread the word and before I knew it, the whole zoo showed up!” he replied.

Timmy’s eyes went wide and Craig saw his chance to relive the day as he is never one to leave a person hanging in suspense.

“You’ve heard of my arch nemesis, the Dauphin of Death, haven’t you? Well, he had sent his greasy minions into City Hall and held the mayor hostage until either I show up or the town gives him three million dollars. This was 1963, and the city did not have the money, so I got a call to come down there.

“When I arrived, the Dauphin was on the roof of the building and he immediately threw the mayor down when he saw me. I had to catch him like this,” Craig puffed out his chest and put one hand on his hip and the other in the air as if he were a waiter holding a tray.

“I fly up to meet him but as soon as I see the top of the roof, I found out that it was covered in little buttons with one of minions sitting by each one. He tells me that each one leads to a building which has a bomb inside and that if I didn’t surrender to him, than he would destroy every place in town. I had no choice, I had family and friends everywhere. I couldn’t risk their lives, so I agreed on one condition, that the animals in the zoo did not have to be subjected to this. I knew the Dauphin was an animal lover when I discovered his secret lair, so I knew he couldn’t say no.

“As soon as I got the go ahead, I asked the rhinos if they could run to every house and shop in town and get everyone out. They agreed but the entire zoo followed me out! When I came back to

City Hall, I found the Dauphin with my girl, Lisa, in his arms.

That got me mad. I wasn’t even thinking when I socked him one right in the jaw. I thought one of his minions would have jumped on me for that, but the monkeys had scared them all off. The Dauphin was now defenseless, and I held the detonator in my hand. He swore we would meet again and I was able to deactivate the bombs with the help of the animals on the condition that they go back to the zoo with heroes’ honors. They agreed.”

All of the shoppers had gathered around to hear the story as the line slowly dwindled down. Timmy got an autograph and Craig insisted that he pay after the store manager told him he didn’t have to do that after he’s already done so much. Craig thanked everyone and walked outside and felt the cool air and the warm sun. He thought fondly on the old days and how he had saved the town, he was rejuvenated by the story.

A quick glance at his watch told him he needed to get back.

He kicked off the ground and went about two feet in the air before he came crashing down onto the pavement. He sighed and remained on the ground as he took out his cell phone and dialed home.

“Lisa, can you pick me up? I can’t fly anymore.”

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

Fans say goodbye to Houston The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — Whitney Houston’s flower-covered casket arrived Saturday at the church where her powerful voice first wowed the congregation, and her family made final preparations to remember the pop superstar in her hometown as fans gathered nearby to say goodbye.

Mourners at the New Hope Baptist Church, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston’s silver casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies, a couple of hours before the service.

White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, “Whitney, Whitney, Whitney.”

Family prepared a service where singer Dionne Warwick, Houston’s cousin, music mogul Clive Davis, who shepherded Houston’s career for decades, actor Kevin Costner and sister-in-law Patricia Houston were to speak; and Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, R. Kelly and gospel stars CeCe and Bebe Winans were to sing. Houston’s voice, a recording of her biggest hit, “I Will Always Love You,” was to close the funeral.

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Close family friend Aretha Franklin, whom Houston lovingly called “Aunt Ree,” had been expected to sing at the service, but she was too ill to attend. Among those who arrived for the service were Angie Stone, Jordin Sparks and Monica.

The service marks one week after the 48year-old Houston, one of music’s all-time biggest stars, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel in California. A cause of death has yet to be determined.

To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame.

To her family and friends, she was just “Nippy.” A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies. To them, she was a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a mother.

“She always had the edge,” Jackson said outside church Saturday. “You can tell when some kids have what we call a special anointing. Aretha had that when she was 14. ...

Whitney cultivated that and took it to a very high level.”

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Vols sweep N. Illinois in Serrano’s debut David Cobb Staff Writer The last time junior centerfielder Chris Fritts had six RBIs in a game was during a blowout summer league victory as a member of the Alexandria Beetles.

He and the rest of the Tennessee baseball squad replicated that performance on Saturday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in the first of two sweepclinching victories over Northern Illinois to begin first-year coach Dave Serrano’s tenure.

An eighth-inning shot off Fritts’ bat cleared the left field fence of Lindsey Nelson Stadium, and combined with an earlier double gave him six RBIs in the game, which the Vols won 10-5 over visiting Northern Illinois.

“I actually had six (RBIs) this summer I think I remember,” Fritts said. “On the Fourth of July, I hit a grand slam so that was cool. But today was fun.”

Fritts was not the only Vol to bring fireworks to the ballpark during UT’s 7-1, 10-5 and 7-2 victories this weekend.

Senior Chris Pierce alternated on either side of

Fritts in both left field and right field and matched make it a lot easier for us to be successful.”

Serrano stuck closely to a plan which called for Fritts’ performance at the plate, as the duo combined to drive in 14 of the Vols’ 24 runs over the each of the three starting pitchers to throw a maximum of four innings. three games.

Junior right-handers Zack “I think they’re playing with a Godley and Nick Blount foldifferent confidence now togethlowed the script to a T on er,” Serrano said. “They’re guys Saturday, each recording wins that we look to for leadership. in their respective four-inning “To have guys like that from starts. the middle to the bottom of the The Saturday starters comorder is good to have because bined with Steckenrider, also a they’ve got some experience junior right-hander, to allow no when we have those big at-bats.” runs in a combined 12 innings.

The Vols were led by Friday “I’m very excited about what night starting pitcher and first I see materializing in this baseman Drew Steckenrider. young pitching staff,” Serrano UT’s cleanup hitter reached said. base safely on 11 of his 14 plate Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon “I really liked how we appearances over the weekend. pitched this weekend. This is a He was also the winning pitcher Friday night, allowing no runs in four innings of big step and it helped answer some questions. I saw some things I really liked but I saw some work.

“I was proud of him,” Serrano said. “For him to things that we need to clean up.”

The Vols utilized seven pitchers out of the be able to do those types of things, it’s going to

Vols Golf places fifth in Mexico Dan Hiergesell Staff Writer After finishing the fall season in fifth place at the Cabo Intercollegiate Tournament in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the Tennessee men’s golf team started off their spring campaign on the right foot, capturing a fourth-place finish at the San Diego Intercollegiate Classic in Chula Vista, Calif.

The tournament, which took place Feb. 13 and 14, featured outstanding play from senior captain Garrick Porteous and junior Jay Vandeventer, leading UT to a plus-23 finish only behind Washington, Southern California and UCLA. “We needed to get the spring started off on the right foot and I think we accomplished that,” UT coach Jim Kelson said. “We got a few things to improve on, but obviously Garrick played very well.”

Porteous, who secured his best collegiate finish to date, ended the tournament at one-under-par, capturing a second-place finish only behind San Diego’s Alex Ching.

“He’s very consistent and he hits the ball very straight,” Kelson said about his senior captain. “It’s only a matter of time before he can go out and win one of those tournaments.”

On the back of contributing to UT’s fourth-place finish, Porteous ended the

day just one stroke off the lead, something he didn’t realize until the last three holes.

“It was a shotgun start so I didn’t really know where I stood, but I knew I was kind of close to the lead,” said Porteous, who closed the tournament with a 69 after producing back-to-back 73s.

Tennessee’s fourth-place charge was the team’s best finish since September, when they finished second at the Carpet Capital Collegiate Tournament in Georgia.

“There were some good teams out there so hopefully we can gain some confidence,” Kelson said. “Confidence is exactly what UT is taking from this solid finish.”

Entering their next tournament at the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational in Florida, the Vols will try to continue their winning ways on the back of great golf from their most tenured player.

“We’re excited about playing in that tournament,” Kelson said. “Fortunately, we’ve had some good showings there.

We’re just looking to continue with positive momentum.”

The Florida Invitational will take place from Feb. 26-28, where Porteous will look continue his dominate play and help UT string together impressive finishes to set off spring play.

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Shekinna Stricklen celebrates after a play against Vanderbilt on Jan. 15. Stricklen scored 12 points in 36 minutes on the court to help give the Lady Vols a 66-56 road win over Ole Miss on Sunday.

bullpen over the series, including three freshmen.

Freshman right-hander Robbie Kidd succeeded Steckenrider on the mound Friday night for three innings, allowing one run on three hits. He was followed by freshman right-hander Connor Stevens, who pitched Friday’s eighth and ninth innings, giving up no runs on one hit to seal the opening day victory.

Freshman left-hander Joseph Vanderplas followed Godley in game two on Saturday, allotting Northern Illinois five runs, though just three of them earned, over innings five through seven.

The Huskies had narrowed the score to 6-5 when Fritts silenced the rally with his three-run bomb.

“We were just comfortable,” Fritts said. “This coaching staff has done a great job to prepare us in practice by simulating game-like situations. We just felt like it was another day on Friday, really, and that carried over to today and we took care of business.”

UT (3-0) will host Western Kentucky (1-2) on Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Alabama ends Vols’ fourgame win streak, 62-50 Staff Reports TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A pair of big Alabama runs — one in each half — lifted the Crimson Tide to a 62-50 win over Tennessee at Coleman Coliseum on Saturday afternoon.

The loss ended the Vols’ four-game win streak as Tennessee now stands at 14-13 overall and 6-6 in the SEC. Alabama improved to 17-9 overall and moved into a tie with the Vols and LSU for fifth place in the SEC as all stand at 6-6, following Saturday’s early action. Mississippi State is in fourth with a mark of 6-5.

Tennessee junior Jeronne Maymon led all scorers with 20 points as he scored in doublefigures for the eighth game in a row.

Sophomore guard Trae Golden added 12 points. Jarnell Stokes had eight points and eight rebounds.

Freshman Trevor Lacey topped the Tide’s scoring chart with 18 points while sophomore Trevor Releford netted 13 points off the bench. Andrew Steele had 10 points. Carl Engstrom posted career-highs with seven points and seven rebounds.

The Crimson Tide used a 20-3 run midway through the second half to take control of the game putting Alabama up 52-35. Releford had nine points in that run. The run ended with a pair of free throws by Moussa Gueye with 5:54 left in the game.

The Vols went from 17:14 to 5:02 left in the game with just one field goal — a lay-up

by Golden with 10:12 left in the second half.

Tennessee missed 12 of 13 shots over a span of more than 12 minutes as the Crimson Tide took over the contest.

Alabama took the first double-figure lead of the game at 43-33 with 10:58 left in the half on another Releford foul shot.

The game was tied at 32 all after a 3-point play by Stokes with 17:14 left in the second half.

Alabama led 29-25 at halftime as the Vols rallied prior to halftime to cut the deficit to four. Tennessee led 13-8 on a Maymon lay-up with 12:19 left in the first half but Alabama used a 19-4 run late in first half to go ahead 27-17 on an Engstrom 3-point play with 2:34 left in the first half.

Maymon had 12 points in the first half to lead all scorers as he made all four field goal attempts of the first half. Maymon had a streak of 10 consecutive field goals dating back to the Florida game a week ago. That was snapped early in the second half at Bama.

The Vols return home to host Ole Miss on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.